Posted on 04/01/2022 5:10:59 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
Colonel Thomas Rosser invites Major Generals Fitzhugh Lee and George Pickett to join him for a luncheon of baked shad. Both generals graciously accept the invitation. By all accounts, it was a quiet, relaxing afternoon for all present.
Nowadays the party of the Confederacy wants you to have arguments with Republican family members at Thanksgiving.
Yup. It got Pickett fired for neglect of duty.
Curiously enough, wouldn’t have made any difference one way or the other - except for getting some more nameless, faceless soldiers slaughtered.
“Curiously enough, wouldn’t have made any difference one way or the other...”
Correct. The Confederate lines were so thinly stretched that a concerted effort by the Union at one point could have broken them.
Pickett was supposedly relieved of duty, not after 5 Forks, but after Sayler’s Creek on April 6.
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